List of English districts by population

List of English districts by population

This is a list of districts of England ordered by population. The counties used are the ceremonial counties of England, and the populations given are those recorded in the 2001 UK census.

Table of contents

1 Over 300,000
2 Over 250,000
3 Over 200,000
4 Over 150,000
5 Over 125,000
6 Over 100,000
7 Over 75,000
8 Over 50,000
9 Below 50,000
10 See also

Over 300,000

Rank District Population Type County
1 Birmingham 977,087 Unitary, City (1889) West Midlands
2 Leeds 715,402 Unitary, City (1893) West Yorkshire
3 Sheffield 513,234 Unitary, City (1893) South Yorkshire
4 Bradford 467,665 Unitary, City (1897) West Yorkshire
5 Liverpool 439,473 Unitary, City (1880) Merseyside
6 Manchester 392,819 Unitary, City (1853) Greater Manchester
7 Kirklees 388,567 Unitary West Yorkshire
8 Bristol 380,615 Unitary, City (1542) Bristol
9 Croydon 330,587 London borough Greater London
10 Wakefield 315,172 Unitary, City (1888) West Yorkshire
11 Barnet 314,564 London borough Greater London
12 East Riding of Yorkshire 314,113 Unitary East Riding of Yorkshire
13 Wirral 312,293 Unitary Merseyside
14 Dudley 305,155 Unitary West Midlands
15 Wigan 301,415 Unitary Greater Manchester
16 Ealing 300,948 London borough Greater London
17 Coventry 300,848 Unitary, City (1345) West Midlands

Rank	District	Population	Type	County
1	Birmingham	977,087	Unitary, City (1889)	West Midlands
2	Leeds	715,402	Unitary, City (1893)	West Yorkshire
3	Sheffield	513,234	Unitary, City (1893)	South Yorkshire
4	Bradford	467,665	Unitary, City (1897)	West Yorkshire
5	Liverpool	439,473	Unitary, City (1880)	Merseyside
6	Manchester	392,819	Unitary, City (1853)	Greater Manchester
7	Kirklees	388,567	Unitary	West Yorkshire
8	Bristol	380,615	Unitary, City (1542)	Bristol
9	Croydon	330,587	London borough	Greater London
10	Wakefield	315,172	Unitary, City (1888)	West Yorkshire
11	Barnet	314,564	London borough	Greater London
12	East Riding of Yorkshire	314,113	Unitary	East Riding of Yorkshire
13	Wirral	312,293	Unitary	Merseyside
14	Dudley	305,155	Unitary	West Midlands
15	Wigan	301,415	Unitary	Greater Manchester
16	Ealing	300,948	London borough	Greater London
17	Coventry	300,848	Unitary, City (1345)	West Midlands

Over 250,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	County
18	Bromley	295,532	London borough	Greater London
19	Doncaster	286,866	Unitary	South Yorkshire
20	Stockport	284,528	Unitary	Greater Manchester
21	Sefton	282,958	Unitary	Merseyside
22	Sandwell	282,904	Unitary	West Midlands
23	Sunderland	280,807	Unitary, City (1992)	Tyne and Wear
24	Enfield	273,559	London borough	Greater London
25	Leicester	279,921	Unitary, City (1919)	Leicestershire
26	Nottingham	266,988	Unitary, City (1897)	Nottinghamshire
27	Lambeth	266,169	London borough	Greater London
28	Brent	263,464	London borough	Greater London
29	Bolton	261,037	Unitary	Greater Manchester
30	Wandsworth	260,380	London borough	Greater London
31	Newcastle upon Tyne	259,536	Unitary, City (1882)	Tyne and Wear
32	Walsall	253,499	Unitary	West Midlands

Over 200,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	County
33	Medway	249,488	Unitary	Kent
34	Lewisham	248,922	London borough	Greater London
35	Rotherham	248,175	Unitary	South Yorkshire
36	Brighton and Hove	247,817	Unitary, City (2000)	East Sussex
37	South Gloucestershire	245,641	Unitary	Gloucestershire
38	Southwark	244,866	London borough	Greater London
39	Newham	243,891	London borough	Greater London
40	Hull	243,589	Unitary, City (1299)	East Riding of Yorkshire
41	Hillingdon	243,006	London borough	Greater London
42	Plymouth	240,720	Unitary, City (1928)	Devon
43	Stoke-on-Trent	240,636	Unitary, City (1925)	Staffordshire
44	Redbridge	238,635	London borough	Greater London
45	Wolverhampton	236,582	Unitary, City (2002)	West Midlands
46	Havering	224,248	London borough	Greater London
47	Derby	221,708	Unitary, City (1977)	Derbyshire
48	Waltham Forest	218,341	London borough	Greater London
49	Bexley	218,307	London borough	Greater London
50	Barnsley	218,063	Unitary	South Yorkshire
51	Southampton	217,445	Unitary, City (1964)	Hampshire
52	Oldham	217,273	Unitary	Greater Manchester
53	Haringey	216,507	London borough	Greater London
54	Salford	216,103	Unitary, City (1926)	Greater Manchester
55	Greenwich	214,403	London borough	Greater London
56	Tameside	213,043	Unitary	Greater Manchester
57	Hounslow	212,341	London borough	Greater London
58	Trafford	210,145	Unitary	Greater Manchester
59	Milton Keynes	207,057	Unitary	Buckinghamshire
60	Harrow	206,814	London borough	Greater London
61	Rochdale	205,357	Unitary	Greater Manchester
62	Hackney	202,824	London borough	Greater London

Over 150,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	County
63	Solihull	199,517	Unitary	West Midlands
64	Northampton	194,458		Northamptonshire
65	Camden	198,020	London borough	Greater London
66	Tower Hamlets	196,106	London borough	Greater London
67	Calderdale	192,405	Unitary	West Yorkshire
68	North Tyneside	191,659	Unitary	Tyne and Wear
69	Gateshead	191,151	Unitary	Tyne and Wear
70	Warrington	191,080	Unitary	Cheshire
71	North Somerset	188,564	Unitary	Somerset
72	Merton	187,908	London borough	Greater London
73	Portsmouth	186,701	Unitary, City (1926)	Hampshire
74	Luton	184,371	Unitary	Bedfordshire
75	Westminster	181,286	London borough, City (1540)	Greater London
76	York	181,094	Unitary, City	North Yorkshire
77	Bury	180,608	Unitary	Greater Manchester
78	Swindon	180,051	Unitary	Wiltshire
79	Sutton	179,768	London borough	Greater London
80	Stockton on Tees	178,408	Unitary	Durham and North Yorkshire
81	St Helens	176,843	Unitary	Merseyside
82	Islington	175,797	London borough	Greater London
83	Herefordshire	174,871	Unitary	Herefordshire
84	Richmond	172,335	London borough	Greater London
85	New Forest	169,331		Hampshire
86	Bath and North East Somerset	169,040	Unitary	Somerset
87	Aylesbury Vale	165,748		Buckinghamshire
88	Basildon	165,668		Essex
89	Hammersmith and Fulham	165,242	London borough	Greater London
90	Barking and Dagenham	163,944	London borough	Greater London
91	Bournemouth	163,444	Unitary	Dorset
92	Wycombe	162,105		Buckinghamshire
93	Southend-on-Sea	160,257	Unitary	Essex
94	Kensington and Chelsea	158,919	London borough	Greater London
95	Telford and Wrekin	158,325	Unitary	Shropshire
96	North East Lincolnshire	157,979	Unitary	Lincolnshire
97	Chelmsford	157,072		Essex
98	Huntingdonshire	156,954		Cambridgeshire
99	Peterborough	156,061	Unitary, City (1541)	Cambridgeshire
100	Colchester	155,796		Essex
101	Charnwood	153,462		Leicestershire
102	North Lincolnshire	152,849	Unitary	Lincolnshire
103	South Tyneside	152,785	Unitary	Tyne and Wear
104	Basingstoke and Deane	152,573		Hampshire
105	South Somerset	150,969		Somerset
106	Knowsley	150,459	Unitary	Merseyside
107	Wokingham	150,229	Unitary	Berkshire
108	Macclesfield	150,155		Cheshire

Over 125,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	County
109	Bedford	147,911		Bedfordshire
110	Kingston	147,273	London borough	Greater London
111	West Berkshire	144,483	Unitary	Berkshire
112	Thurrock	143,128	Unitary	Essex
113	Reading	143,096	Unitary	Berkshire
114	Blackpool	142,283	Unitary	Lancashire
115	Arun	140,759		West Sussex
116	Wealden	140,023		East Sussex
117	Redcar and Cleveland	139,132	Unitary	North Yorkshire
118	Maidstone	138,948		Kent
119	Poole	138,288	Unitary	Dorset
120	Blackburn with Darwen	137,470	Unitary	Lancashire
121	Dacorum	137,799		Hertfordshire
122	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	135,345		Norfolk
123	Canterbury	135,278	City	Kent
124	Middlesbrough	134,855	Unitary	North Yorkshire
125	Oxford	134,248	City (1542)	Oxfordshire
126	Lancaster	133,914	City (1937)	Lancashire
127	Windsor and Maidenhead	133,626	Unitary	Berkshire
128	Isle of Wight	132,731	Unitary	Isle of Wight
129	Braintree	132,179		Essex
130	Cherwell	131,785		Oxfordshire
131	East Lindsey	130,447		Lincolnshire
132	South Cambridgeshire	130,108		Cambridgeshire
133	Guildford	129,701		Surrey
134	Preston	129,633		Lancashire
135	Torbay	129,706	Unitary	Devon
136	St Albans	129,005	City (1877)	Hertfordshire
137	East Hertfordshire	128,919		Hertfordshire
138	South Oxfordshire	128,188		Oxfordshire
139	Mid Sussex	127,378		West Sussex
140	Reigate and Banstead	126,523		Surrey
141	Thanet	126,702		Kent
142	North Wiltshire	125,372		Wiltshire
143	Warwick	125,931	Warwickshire
144	East Devon	125,520	Devon

Over 100,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	County
145	South Kesteven	124,792		Lincolnshire
146	Swale	122,801		Kent
147	Vale Royal	122,089		Cheshire
148	Newcastle-under-Lyme	122,030		Staffordshire
149	Horsham	122,088		West Sussex
150	Elmbridge	121,936		Surrey
151	Norwich	121,550	City (1195)	Norfolk
152	Breckland	121,418		Norfolk
153	Mid Bedfordshire	121,024		Bedfordshire
154	Teignbridge	120,958		Devon
155	Epping Forest	120,896		Essex
156	Nuneaton and Bedworth	119,132		Warwickshire
157	Slough	119,067	Unitary	Berkshire
158	Broadland	118,513		Norfolk
159	Chester	118,210	City	Cheshire
160	Halton	118,208	Unitary	Cheshire
161	West Wiltshire	118,150		Wiltshire
162	Ipswich	117,069		Suffolk
163	North Hertfordshire	116,908		Hertfordshire
164	Havant	116,849		Hampshire
165	Amber Valley	116,471		Derbyshire
166	Eastleigh	116,169		Hampshire
167	Waverley	115,665		Surrey
168	Vale of White Horse	115,627		Oxfordshire
169	Suffolk Coastal	115,141		Suffolk
170	Salisbury	114,613	City	Wiltshire
171	Wychavon	112,957		Worcestershire
172	South Bedfordshire	112,637		Bedfordshire
173	Waveney	112,342		Suffolk
174	Gedling	111,787		Nottinghamshire
175	Stratford-on-Avon	111,484		Warwickshire
176	Ashfield	111,387		Nottinghamshire
177	Exeter	111,076	City	Devon
178	Crewe and Nantwich	111,007		Cheshire
179	South Norfolk	110,710		Norfolk
180	Erewash	110,099		Derbyshire
181	Cheltenham	110,013		Gloucestershire
182	Gloucester	109,885	City	Gloucestershire
183	Test Valley	109,801		Hampshire
184	Bracknell Forest	109,617	Unitary	Berkshire
185	Sevenoaks	109,305		Kent
186	East Hampshire	109,274		Hampshire
187	Cambridge	108,863	City (1951)	Cambridgeshire
188	West Lancashire	108,378		Lancashire
189	Fareham	107,977		Hampshire
190	Stroud	107,898		Gloucestershire
191	Bassetlaw	107,713		Nottinghamshire
192	Broxtowe	107,570		Nottinghamshire
193	Tonbridge and Malling	107,561		Kent
194	Chichester	106,450	City	West Sussex
195	Newark and Sherwood	106,273		Nottinghamshire
196	Scarborough	106,243		North Yorkshire
197	Winchester	107,222	City	Hampshire
198	South Staffordshire	105,896		Staffordshire
199	Sedgemoor	105,881		Somerset
200	Wyre	105,618		Lancashire
201	Rushcliffe	105,599		Nottinghamshire
202	Dover	104,566		Kent
203	Tunbridge Wells	104,030		Kent
204	Mendip	103,869		Somerset
205	South Ribble	103,867		Lancashire
206	East Staffordshire	103,770		Staffordshire
207	Ashford	102,661		Kent
208	South Lakeland	102,301		Cumbria
209	Taunton Deane	102,299		Somerset
210	Carlisle	100,739		Cumbria
211	Chorley	100,449		Lancashire
212	Hinckley and Bosworth	100,141		Leicestershire

Over 75,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	County
213	Crawley	99,744		West Sussex
214	Chesterfield	98,845		Derbyshire
215	North Norfolk	98,382		Norfolk
216	St Edmundsbury	98,193		Suffolk
217	Mansfield	98,181		Nottinghamshire
218	Darlington	97,838	Unitary	Durham
219	Worthing	97,568		West Sussex
220	Welwyn Hatfield	97,553		Hertfordshire
221	North East Derbyshire	96,940		Derbyshire
222	Wyre Forest	96,981		Worcestershire
223	Shepway	96,238		Kent
224	Shrewsbury and Atcham	95,850		Shropshire
225	Gravesham	95,717		Kent
226	West Oxfordshire	95,640		Oxfordshire
227	Restormel	95,562		Cornwall
228	Staffordshire Moorlands	94,489		Staffordshire
229	Hertsmere	94,450		Hertfordshire
230	North Kesteven	94,024		Lincolnshire
231	Easington	93,993		Durham
232	Allerdale	93,492		Cumbria
233	Worcester	93,353	City (1189)	Worcestershire
234	Lichfield	93,232		Staffordshire
235	Kerrier	92,517		Cornwall
236	West Dorset	92,360		Dorset
237	Lewes	92,177		East Sussex
238	Cannock Chase	92,126		Staffordshire
239	Rushmoor	90,987		Hampshire
240	Great Yarmouth	90,810		Norfolk
241	Congleton	90,655		Cheshire
242	Spelthorne	90,390		Surrey
243	Blaby	90,252		Leicestershire
244	Woking	89,840		Surrey
245	Eastbourne	89,667		East Sussex
246	Burnley	89,542		Lancashire
247	High Peak	89,433		Derbyshire
248	Pendle	89,248		Lancashire
249	Chiltern	89,228		Buckinghamshire
250	Hastings	85,029		East Sussex
251	Hartlepool	88,611	Unitary	Durham
252	Carrick	87,865		Cornwall
253	Bromsgrove	87,837		Worcestershire
254	Durham	87,709	City	Durham
255	North Devon	87,508		Devon
256	Rugby	87,453		Warwickshire
257	Sedgefield	87,206		Durham
258	Broxbourne	87,054		Hertfordshire
259	Mid Suffolk	86,837		Suffolk
260	Castle Point	86,608		Essex
261	Dartford	85,911		Kent
262	Lincoln	85,595	City	Lincolnshire
263	North West Leicestershire	85,503		Leicestershire
264	Rother	85,428		East Sussex
265	Derwentside	85,074		Durham
266	Hambleton	84,111		North Yorkshire
267	East Dorset	83,786		Dorset
268	Fenland	83,519		Cambridgeshire
269	Hart	83,505		Hampshire
270	Babergh	83,461		Suffolk
271	Three Rivers	82,848		Hertfordshire
272	Ellesmere Port and Neston	81,672		Cheshire
273	South Hams	81,849		Devon
274	South Derbyshire	81,562		Derbyshire
275	Kettering	81,844		Northamptonshire
276	Hyndburn	81,496		Lancashire
277	Blyth Valley	81,265		Northumberland
278	North Cornwall	80,509		Cornwall
279	Cotswold	80,376		Gloucestershire
280	Surrey Heath	80,314		Surrey
281	Mole Valley	80,287		Surrey
282	Forest of Dean	79,982		Gloucestershire
283	Watford	79,726		Hertfordshire
284	Stevenage	79,715		Hertfordshire
285	Caradon	79,649		Cornwall
286	West Lindsey	79,515		Lincolnshire
287	South Northamptonshire	79,293		Northamptonshire
288	Tandridge	79,267		Surrey
289	Redditch	78,807		Worcestershire
290	Harlow	78,768		Essex
291	Tendring	78,489		Essex
292	Runnymede	78,033		Surrey
293	Harborough	76,559		Leicestershire
294	East Northamptonshire	76,550		Northamptonshire
295	South Holland	76,522		Lincolnshire
296	Selby	76,468		North Yorkshire
297	Gosport	76,415		Hampshire
298	Tewkesbury	76,405		Gloucestershire

Over 50,000

Rank	District	Population	County
299	Kennet	74,838	Wiltshire
300	Tamworth	74,531	Staffordshire
301	Fylde	73,217	Lancashire
302	East Cambridgeshire	73,214	Cambridgeshire
303	Wellingborough	72,519	Northamptonshire
304	Malvern Hills	72,172	Worcestershire
305	Barrow-in-Furness	71,980	Cumbria
306	Daventry	71,838	Northamptonshire
307	Bolsover	71,766	Derbyshire
308	Mid Devon	69,774	Devon
309	Derbyshire Dales	69,469	Derbyshire
310	Copeland	69,318	Cumbria
311	Uttlesford	68,946	Essex
312	Brentwood	68,456	Essex
313	Epsom and Ewell	67,059	Surrey
314	Rossendale	65,652	Lancashire
315	Weymouth and Portland	63,648	Dorset
316	Penwith	63,012	Cornwall
317	South Buckinghamshire	61,945	Buckinghamshire
318	North Dorset	61,905	Dorset
319	North Warwickshire	61,860	Warwickshire
320	Wansbeck	61,138	Northumberland
321	Adur	59,627	West Sussex
322	Tynedale	58,808	Northumberland
323	Torridge	58,965	Devon
324	Maldon	59,418	Essex
325	North Shropshire	57,108	Shropshire
326	Oadby and Wigston	55,795	Leicestershire
327	Boston	55,750	Lincolnshire
328	Forest Heath	55,510	Suffolk
329	Ribble Valley	53,960	Lancashire
330	Chester-le-Street	53,692	Durham
331	Craven	53,620	North Yorkshire
332	Corby	53,174	Northamptonshire
333	Bridgnorth	52,497	Shropshire
334	Ryedale	50,872	North Yorkshire

Below 50,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	County
335	Eden	49,777		Cumbria
336	Castle Morpeth	49,001		Northumberland
337	West Devon	48,843		Devon
338	Melton	47,866		Leicestershire
339	Christchurch	44,865		Dorset
340	Purbeck	44,416		Dorset
341	Richmondshire	47,010		North Yorkshire
342	South Shropshire	40,410		Shropshire
343	Oswestry	37,308		Shropshire
344	West Somerset	35,075		Somerset
345	Rutland	34,563	Unitary	Rutland
346	Alnwick	31,029		Northumberland
347	Berwick upon Tweed	25,949		Northumberland
348	Teesdale	24,457		Durham
349	City of London	7,185	Unitary, City	Greater London
350	Isles of Scilly	2,153	Unitary	Cornwall